Lesson 11: How to Make Fishing Lures | Fishing and Lure Making: Bait – Cutbait
In this lesson, we go over how to hook cutbait. For our present purposes we use a sardine but there are many options that you can use for cutbait. The expression explores the merits of two options: “Fish”, which refers to the act of fishing; or “cut bait”, which refers to cutting up pieces of bait into small, usable portions. Cutbait is good for both salt and fresh water. In this video, we even give you some inside tips on how to use particular saltwater fish as cutbait when fishing in fresh water. Just make sure to watch this before you get out there with your cutbait so you can learn the importance on keeping the bones in the fish when preparing it for the hook.
In This Lesson:
- How to best cut cutbait
- Types of fish that can be used as cutbait
- Inside tips for freshwater fishing with saltwater cutbait
- Where to find the right kind of fish
- The difference between using the head or part of the body
- And more…
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